raullenchai/Rapid-MLX
The fastest local AI engine for Apple Silicon. 4.2x faster than Ollama, 0.08s cached TTFT, 100% tool calling. 17 tool parsers, prompt cache, reasoning separation, cloud routing. Drop-in OpenAI replacement. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Aider.
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Should you contribute to raullenchai/Rapid-MLX?
raullenchai/Rapid-MLX has a FoundDev health score of 89/100, which puts it in the active-and-maintained tier. The maintainer team is shipping recently, issues are being closed, and a PR you open this week has a realistic chance of being reviewed.
Last push was 1 days ago — that signals an actively maintained project. New issues are likely to get a maintainer response within days. The project is written primarily in Python, so prior Python experience will shorten ramp-up.
Licensed under Apache-2.0, a standard OSI-approved license — safe to contribute to under normal employer IP policies.
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